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San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike

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You can blame Craigslist or Google or blogs like this one. However you look at it, the Internet has disrupted the newspaper business. And the latest changes at the San Francisco Chronicle show that the upheaval isn't over. Over the … Continue reading »


Video: 'Dear Abby' Columnist Pauline Phillips On How She Started With SF Chronicle

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"Dear Abby" was the name of a column, not a person. But the moniker fit Pauline Phillips, better known to readers by her pen name of Abigail Van Buren, who became very dear, indeed, to fans around the world after … Continue reading »


Video: Sarah Palin in Praise of Herb Caen?

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Huh. Maybe Sarah Palin does read the papers after all. In the video below, is she unconsciously yearning for a candidate in the mold of the late whimsical Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, whose ellipses-laden prose won him a Pulitzer and … Continue reading »


A Musical Homage to the Chronicle Crime Reporter: The Ballad of Henry K. Lee

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I don't think you have to do exactly what I do every morning to fully appreciate the video below, but it would probably help. See, it's my 6:30 a.m. pleasure each day to sift through a hundred or so articles … Continue reading »


San Francisco Earthquake: A Voice from '06

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Update: The U.S. Geological Survey says that little shake we had was a 3.8 magnitude quake, centered on the San Andreas Fault just southeast of Pacifica. If you're keeping score at home, that epicenter is only about 10 or 12 … Continue reading »